The greatest war film ever made

Rating: Null/10 (22 October 2011)

The longest day is a solid piece of movie gold and a cinema masterpiece. The cast is some of the best actors to star in a motion picture and the storyline and narrative are perfect.
Brilliant performances come from John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Curt Jurgens, Eddie Albert, Jeffery Hunter, Mel Ferrer, Red Buttons, Steve Forrest, Alexander Knox, Sal Mineo, Edmond O Brien, George Segal, Rod Steiger, Robert Ryan, Nicholas Stuart, Robert Wagner, Stuart Whitman, Howard Marion Crawford, John Gregson, Kenneth More, Jack Headly, Hans Christian Blech, Gert Frobe, Wolfgang Priess and Peter Van Eyck.
Its good to see a historic moment from the American, British and German points of view. For the 3 hours of the movie, you see D day come together as each nationality appear and discuss plans and battle it out with the enemy.
The action scenes are excellent as they come in the form of several battles between each army. Battles make ear blasting use of machine guns, cannons, planes, battleships, rifles, grenades, cannons, tanks and gattling guns. The many battle scenes which show soldiers pouring out of small boats and onto different beaches while being shot and bombed at are truly breathtaking.
The theme music is brilliant and the film is beautifully produced by Darryl F Zanuck and perfectly written for the cinema by James Jones, Romain Gary, Cornelius Ryan, David Pursall and Jack Seddon. The direction should be an example to all film makers today and the film was stunningly directed by no more than six directors, Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki, Gerd Oswald, Darryl F Zanuck and John Wayne. The fact that the movie took millions of dollars to make and involved thousands of cast and crew members make this film a true epic.
I highly recommend this film to anybody. Its a brilliant film and highly memorable. Epic.